Morning journal and courier., 1887-12-26
YALELAw SCHOOL.

A Prosperous Department of the UnI-
 versIty-Special Lecturers and In.
 structOrs for the Coming Year.
 Among the several important depart ments of Yale university is the law depart ment, which continues to increase in the number of students and professors each year. This year has been one of the most
 successful the school has ever seen. The
 new catalogue recently issued shows that
 there are eighteen professors and instructors
 connected with the department, aud ninety
 four students, viz,: forty one seniors, forty
 five juniors, five graduates and three special
 students, among them being many men
 frem the class of 1887 in tho Yale academ-
 ical department. The force of lecturers and
 instructors has also been notably increased
 this year, and it now comprises in
 the undergraduate course Gin addition to the regular course) Hon. Edward J. Phelps, LL.D., United States minister to England, who is instructor in Roman law; Professor Mark Bailey, M. A., instructor in forensic elocution; Hon. Morris w. Seymour, prominent lawyer of Bridgeport, who gives @ course of lectures on corporations; Hon. Nj. Dwight Collier, of New York a leading lawyer there who lectures on attachments, judgments and executions; Hon. w. E. Sim onds, of Hartford, well known as one of the leading lawyers of that city, who delivers lectures on patent law; MT. Thomas Thacher, M. A., LLB., of New York, son of the late l lamented Professor Thacher, who lectures on corporate trusts; MT. James M. Townsend, I jr, (brother of Professor William K. Town send) who lectures on the transfer of none 1 tary securities, and MT. Roger Foster, M. A.,
 LL.B., of New York, son of Judge Dwight
 Foster of Boston, a nephew of Pro
 lawyer of New York city, who lectures on federal jurisprudence. In the graduate course Professor Albert s. Wheeler is instructor in Roman law; Professor W. G. Sumner in political and social science, and Professor Arthur T. Hadley in railway management and economics of transportation.
 Mir. Thacher, who lectures on corporate | trusts, graduated at Yale in 1871. James M. | Townsend, jr., graduated in 1874, taking the ! Townsend and DeForest gold medals, the | highest honor in the four years course. He 1 is son of MT. James M. Townsend of our | city. Mir. Roger Foster is grandson of the
 late ex-Governor Baldwin of Connecticut. These three young men, whose names appear | this year in YSle's catalogue students for \ the first time, are New Haven young men, of New Haven percentage, and represent some of | the best families of our city. They already | rank among the most brilliant young men in | the profession that have graduated from Yale | within the period since they finished at their 1 alma mater. Another feature of interest in I reference to the brilliant era of prosperity | upon which the law school has entered is the recent endowment of the Edward J. Phelps professorship, fol \ which class Professor w. K. Townsend has l been selected. This chair was endowed by l some friend of United States Minister Phelps | who gave handsome sum for the purpose about $50, 900.
 Professor Arthur T. Hadley of the law de partment is another New Haven boy. son oi
 the late lamented Professor Hadley of Yale
 is also professor (political science) in the Aeademical department, having been ap-
 pointed such in the last year. The flourish. | ing state of the Law school is justly matter
 of congratulation, both on the part of oul | citizens and the college.